Communities and Courts

Religion and Law in Modern India
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-19559-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as well as a validation of their practices. Equally, courts have become the most potent site of the play of conflicts and contradictions between religious groups. The judicial power thus not only arbiters conflicts but also defines what constitutes the ‘religious’, and demarcates its limits.

This volume argues that the relationship between law and religion is not merely one of competing sovereignties – as rational law moulding religion in its reformist vision, and religion defending its turf against secular incursions– but needs to be understood within a wider social and political canvas. The essays here demonstrate how questions of religious pluralism, secularism, law and order, are all central to understanding how the religious and the legal remain imbricated within each other in modern India. It will be of interest to academics, researchers, and advanced students of Sociology, History, Political Science and Law.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sethi, Manisha

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction – Communities and courts: religion and law in modern India PART 1 Religion and Law: Competing Sovereignties? 2. Framing religion in constitutional politics: a view from Indian Constitutional Law 3. Ritual death in a secular state: the Jain practice of Sallekhana PART 2 The Contested Field of Muslim Personal Law 4. Codification of Islamic Law in South Asia, or how not to do comparative law 5. Shari’a politics, 'ulama and Laity Ijtihad: fields of normativity and conviviality PART 3 Communities and Conflicts 6. Religion, law and state policing: accusations, inquests and arbitration of religious conflicts in colonial India 7. The mosque as juristic person: law, public order and inter-religious disputes in India 8. Art, law and the violence of offence taking 9. Secular moral/legal commitments revisited: an interlude by way of afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Manisha Sethi teaches at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. She is the author of Kafkaland: Law, Prejudice and Counterterrorism in India (2014) and Escaping the World: Women Renouncers among Jains (Routledge, 2012).